Motivational Quotes

Life

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

- Morgan, Charles

Best Quotes about Life

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?